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Charles Coburn

Aliases
  • The Monocle from Georgia
English
Filmography

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953
as Sir Francis Beekman

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

1952
as Samuel Fulton / John Smith

Town on Trial

1957
as Dr. John Fenner

Of Human Hearts

1938
as Dr. Charles Shingle

How to Murder a Rich Uncle

1957
as Uncle George

Rhapsody in Blue

1945
as Max Dreyfus

Lured

1947
as Inspector Harley Temple

My Kingdom For A Cook

1943
as Rudyard Morley

Marilyn

1963

Idiot's Delight

1939
as Dr. Hugo Waldersee

Together Again

1944
as Jonathan Crandall Sr

Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano

1983
as (archive footage)

Monkey Business

1952
as Mr. Oliver Oxley

In This Our Life

1942
as William Fitzroy

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1987
as Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman

Colonel Effingham's Raid

1946
as Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham

Princess O'Rourke

1943
as Uncle Holman

The More the Merrier

1943
as Benjamin Dingle

Yellow Jack

1938
as Dr. Finlay

Bachelor Mother

1939
as J. B. Merlin

Around the World in 80 Days

1956
as Steamship Company Hong Kong Clerk

Peggy

1950
as Professor Brookfield

The Lady Eve

1941
as 'Colonel' Harrington

The People's Enemy

1935
as Judge Hays

George Washington Slept Here

1942
as Uncle Stanley J. Menninger

Our Wife

1941
as Professor Drake

The Story of Mankind

1957
as Hippocrates

Heaven Can Wait

1943
as Hugo Van Cleve

The Gal Who Took the West

1949
as Gen. Michael O'Hara

Three Faces West

1940
as Dr. Karl Braun

Over 21

1945
as Robert Drexel Gow

The Power and the Prize

1956
as Guy Eliot

In Name Only

1939
as Richard Walker

The Constant Nymph

1943
as Charles Creighton

Wilson

1944
as Professor Henry Holmes

Unexpected Uncle

1941
as Seton Mansley

Louisa

1950
as Abel Burnside

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

1959
as Grampa Pennypacker

Inside the Marx Brothers

2003
as Alex Conway (clip from Mr. Music (1950)) (archive footage)

Made for Each Other

1939
as Judge Joseph M. Doolittle

How To Be Very, Very Popular

1955
as Dr. Tweed

The Rocket Man

1954
as Mayor Ed Johnson

The Green Years

1946
as Alexander Gow

The Long Wait

1954
as Gardiner

A Royal Scandal

1945
as Chancellor Nicolai Iiyitch

H.M. Pulham, Esq.

1941
as Mr. Pulham Sr.

Vivacious Lady

1938
as Peter Morgan Sr.

Everybody Does It

1949
as Major Blair

Kings Row

1942
as Dr. Henry Gordon

Knickerbocker Holiday

1944
as Peter Stuyvesant

Mr. Music

1950
as Alex Conway

The Devil and Miss Jones

1941
as John P. Merrick/Thomas Higgins

The Paradine Case

1947
as Sir Simon Flaquer

The Impatient Years

1944
as William Smith

John Paul Jones

1959
as Benjamin Franklin

Green Grass of Wyoming

1948
as Beaver Greenway

Stanley and Livingstone

1939
as Lord Tyce

B.F.'s Daughter

1948
as Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton

Breakdowns of 1942

1942
as Charles Coburn

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939
as Gardner Hubbard

Lord Jeff

1938
as Captain Briggs

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

1949
as Professor Jason Hartley

Edison, the Man

1940
as General Powell

Road to Singapore

1940
as Joshua Mallon IV

Trouble Along the Way

1953
as le Père Matthew William Burke

Impact

1949
as Lt. Quincy

Florian

1940
as Dr. Johannes Hofer

The Doctor and the Girl

1949
as Dr. John Corday

The Highwayman

1951
as Lord Walters

Pepe

1960
as Himself

Guest Star

Episode I've Got a Secret
Charles Coburn 		1953
Episode I've Got a Secret
Charles Coburn 		1959
Episode The Name's the Same
Charles Coburn 		1953
Episode I've Got a Secret
Charles Coburn 		1954
Episode The Name's the Same
Charles Coburn 		1954
Episode The Bob Cummings Show
Bob Goes Birdwatching 		1958
Episode What's My Line?
Charles Coburn 		1953